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Title: Stone's River
The Turning-Point of the Civil War

Author: Wilson J. Vance

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STONE'S RIVER

The Turning-Point of the Civil War

By
WILSON J. VANCE

New York
The Neale Publishing Company
1914

(Copyright, 1914)
By The Neale Publishing Company

TO MY WIFE

ORDER OF CONTENTS

Page

Preface 7

Introduction 9

Chapter

I North and South in 1862 12

II Foreign Relations in 1862 21

III The Armies and Their Leaders 31

IV The First Day's Battle 44

V The Night and the Next Day 55

VI The Second of January, 1863 59

VII What Might Have Been,--and What Was 63

Appendix 67

STONE'S RIVER

PREFACE

While many authorities were consulted in the preparation of this work,
particular acknowledgment is due John Formby's "The American Civil War,"
wherein was suggested the proposition that is here laid down and expanded;
to Van Horne's "History of the Army of the Cumberland," which gives the
campaigns of that organization in minute detail; to several of the papers
and books of Charles Francis Adams,--documents that deal principally with
the diplomacy of the Civil War, and to the published and spoken words of
the author's father,--the late Wilson Vance,--orderly to the brigade
commander whose charge against orders turned defeat into victory in the
battle here described. The book grows out of a short article published in
the Newark _Sunday Call_, Decemb